Useful aged care and ageing research websites

• Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
• Ageing Research Online
  Provides a central repository of ageing research.
• ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well
  The Network generates research knowledge underpinning national goals articulated in the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia, the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering, and Innovations Council report Promoting Healthy Ageing in Australia, the Framework for an Australian Ageing Research Agenda, and the Stocktake of Australian Ageing.
• Australian Government, Australian Institute of Family Studies - aged care service and policy
  Provides references to a selection of recent online documents indexed in the Australian Family & Society Abstracts database. Items were chosen to address the topic and to demonstrate the range of documents available in the database including journal articles, conference papers, government reports, research papers etc.
• Australian Policy Online
  Online link to ageing research across Australia.
• Centre for Education and Research on Ageing
  CERA’s aim is to expand and share knowledge of human ageing through collaborative, multidisciplinary research and education with the purposes of:
  - promoting healthy ageing
  - minimising the impact of disease and disability on older people
  - improving the quality of life of our older population.
  
• Monash Research for an Ageing Society
  Monash Research for an Ageing Society is extending the ageing research activities at Monash university by addressing three goals for excellence, contribution and investment in ageing research.
  Goal 1: Internationally competitive excellence in multidisciplinary research activities in ageing
  Goal 2: Leadership and influence in ageing research, policy and services across Australia and in international research and policy in ageing.
  Goal 3: Strong financial investment in the Monash Research for an Ageing Society initiative from national and international government and competitive grant sources, and philanthropic organisations.
• National Ageing Research Institute
  NARI conducts research into ageing and improving the life and health of older people. NARI conducts research in the community, hospital and residential care settings.
• National Library of Australia
  Provides guides that contain key resources on selected subjects that will assist people undertaking research. There are two main types of guide: Print Resources at the National Library of Australia guides which contain catalogue search tips and selected print reference works and Selected Websites guides which list freely available websites.
• Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library, Social Policy Resources, Aged Resources
  Provides a resource guide social policy/aged care research.
• Policy Pointers
  Policy research on ageing from leading think tanks around the world.
• United Nations - UN Programme on Ageing
• University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts, School of Social Work, Ageing and Long Term Care Policy and Practice Research Unit
  Facilitates research and scholarships in gerontological social work.
• University of Queensland - The Australasian Centre on Ageing
  The mission of the Australasian Centre on Ageing is to enhance the lives of older people through quality research, education and policy analysis.
• Victoria University - ALMA Unit for Research on Ageing
  The mission of AURA has been to create a multidisciplinary approach to generating new knowledge and understanding about ageing within a life-span perspective. The work of AURA has been to develop a university-wide ageing research initiative, and importantly, build relationships between Victoria University and a range of external key stakeholders in ageing related areas.
• World Health Organisation - Ageing and Life Course